Guns Save Lives

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There is a general belief among some people in the UK that guns are evil and should be banned completely.

A firearm is an inanimate object and has no self awareness. Therefore it is completely incapable of evil. Only the person holding it is responsible for acts committed using it.

Guns are used far more often to defend lives than to take them, and this happens every single day throughout the world.

When guns are illegal, it means that respectable people have no way of defending themselves. This is something that the anti-gun campaigners deliberately overlook.

Whilst they claim to be looking out for you, they will never admit that they have actually left you very vulnerable to violent crime.

A defenceless society leaves criminals free to do as they please with no fear  of encountering an armed victim. This in turn causes violent crime to rise.

Why can't good people with families protect themselves ?

There are many cases of people who have gone out of their homes to confront individuals causing problems and have ended up being savagely beaten and killed, sometimes in front of loved ones.

Incidents like these leave wives and children so traumatised that they no longer feel safe in their own homes, and often have nightmares for many years afterwards.

Had these people gone out armed, the outcome could have been very different.

Guns offer the only adequate means of protection for the weak, disabled and elderly.

They are an effective equaliser, allowing a 80 year old woman to protect herself from a 20 year old, 6ft drug addict.

In the United States only a very small percentage of guns are used in crimes, the figure is so small that it's almost insignificant.

We all have the basic human right to protect ourselves and our loved ones and firearms are the best and most effective way that this can be achieved, particularly when faced with multiple attackers.